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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)